Oscars

LOS ANGELES, CA – One hundred seventy features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 90th Academy Awards®. The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are: “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail” “Aida’s Secrets” “Al Di Qua” “All the Rage” “All These Sleepless Nights” “AlphaGo” “The American Media and the Second Assassination of President John F. …

The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up this last weekend and it left us, for the first time in years, without a true Oscar frontrunner. Or has it? If the past 8 years have showed us anything, it’s that the Best Picture winner is usually seen by now and between Venice, Telluride and TIFF it’s safe to say we’ve …

ALL WINNING FILMS NOW ELIGIBLE FOR OSCARS® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy has voted 17 students as winners of the 44th Student Academy Awards®competition. This year, the Student Academy Awards competition received a total of 1,587 entries from 267 domestic and 89 international colleges and universities – which were voted by a record number of Academy members. The 2017 winners join …

The Venice Film Festival isn’t over – but four standout supporting performances are already getting considerable buzz. From The Shape of Water to Three Billboards to Downsizing, these four performances feature actors and actresses at the top of their game and Oscar clips that had everyone talking. Three of these four performances are male – only one supporting actress delivered …

Typically, it’s the stars who get all the attention when films screen at film festivals. They walk the red carpet, get all the media attention and pundits compete to appoint their favorite potential contenders. But there are equally deserving achievements in each of these films that usually go unnoticed – except for a few words here and there in some …

Stephen Frears’ new film Victoria and Abdul premiered at the Venice Film Festivals and the reviews – including ours – were mixed. The film features a powerful performance by Judi Dench as Queen Victoria, which comes as no surprise given how consistent Dench is, but the story suffers from a misguided tone and a miscast co-lead that drags the film into a caricature version …

Alexander Payne’s Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government’s acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in …

Three major American films backed by key studios were unveiled this week at the Venice Film Festival with several more films to go. Downsizing kicked off the festival on a polarizing note, The Shape of Water had all the buzz and Suburbicon split critics and audiences. Here’s how the Best Picture Oscar chances of all 3 films look at the moment… Best Picture In the Oscar …

2020 Best Picture Predictions

1917 (Universal) December 25
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony/Columbia) November 22
Ford v. Ferrari (20th Century Fox) November 15
Harriet (Focus Features) November 1
The Irishman (Netflix)
Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight) October 18
Just Mercy (Warner Bros.) January 17, 2020
The Laundromat (Netflix)
Little Women (Sony/Columbia) December 25
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Sony/Columbia) July 26

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